Woke up to heavy snowfall with white stuff covering the ground. Quite lovely… but discovered the hard way that the RV slide-out won’t retract with two inches of snow on the awning. So spent a precarious five minutes up on the slippery roof with a whisk broom attending to that little issue. Then took Delores into Middlebury for 19 gallons of propane and various other errands… none of which, thank goodness, required parallel parking. RV drove really well on the snow-covered back roads… though no land-speed records were attempted. One stop was at Taylor
Rental to retrieve their rebar cutter / bender. Arrived back at Fern Lake mid-morning and a few minutes before Steve Osmer (good friend and former boss who had foolishly volunteered for three days of concrete work). Steve and I spent a thoroughly cold, wet, miserable rest of the morning cutting 30 inch rebar cross ties into 18 inch cross ties to accommodate the change in footer size. Also cut the 100 or so pieces that will be used to form rebar “squares”. A word of explanation: the upper level of the shed will rest on six large wooden beams that will, in turn, rest on twelve concrete columns, each 10 inches square and nearly 8' tall. Each of those concrete columns will be reinforced by four vertical rebar lengths formed into a bundle using four or five short
lengths of rebar that have been bent into the form of a square. After a change of clothes and a warm lunch, returned the rebar cutter / bender to Taylor, then began placing steel in the footer forms. Mid-afternoon it finally stopped snowing, though for the remainder of the work day snow plummeting 80 or so feet off the big pine into the cellar hole gave us several near misses. By quitting time had about 2/3 of the horizontal rebar runs and cross ties in place and tied together. Not bad for two guys who had never used a rebar wire tying tool before today.
Woke up to heavy snowfall with white stuff covering the ground. Quite lovely… but discovered the hard way that the RV slide-out won’t retract with two inches of snow on the awning. So spent a precarious five minutes up on the slippery roof with a whisk broom attending to that little issue. Then took Delores into Middlebury for 19 gallons of propane and various other errands… none of which, thank goodness, required parallel parking. RV drove really well on the snow-covered back roads… though no land-speed records were attempted. One stop was at Taylor
Rental to retrieve their rebar cutter / bender. Arrived back at Fern Lake mid-morning and a few minutes before Steve Osmer (good friend and former boss who had foolishly volunteered for three days of concrete work). Steve and I spent a thoroughly cold, wet, miserable rest of the morning cutting 30 inch rebar cross ties into 18 inch cross ties to accommodate the change in footer size. Also cut the 100 or so pieces that will be used to form rebar “squares”. A word of explanation: the upper level of the shed will rest on six large wooden beams that will, in turn, rest on twelve concrete columns, each 10 inches square and nearly 8' tall. Each of those concrete columns will be reinforced by four vertical rebar lengths formed into a bundle using four or five short
lengths of rebar that have been bent into the form of a square. After a change of clothes and a warm lunch, returned the rebar cutter / bender to Taylor, then began placing steel in the footer forms. Mid-afternoon it finally stopped snowing, though for the remainder of the work day snow plummeting 80 or so feet off the big pine into the cellar hole gave us several near misses. By quitting time had about 2/3 of the horizontal rebar runs and cross ties in place and tied together. Not bad for two guys who had never used a rebar wire tying tool before today.
